How easy for Deaf to learn to drive a stick?

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I had a question pop into my head a couple minutes ago, so I will just ask...

If your Deaf, how hard was it for you to learn to drive a stick?? I thought about that earlier, because when my dad taught me, he always told me to listen.(im hearing of course :lol: )

I think it would be really hard for me to drive a stick if I had earplugs or something, because I always listen for the engine reving, and being overworked, underworked, so I know when to shift, etc...

Maybe I should just experiment, and put some earplugs in and go for a spin... and hopefully I wont need a new clutch when I get back. :D

Please share your opinions!!

Tegumi
 
I have no problem driving a stick shift, and I have one. I don't really have to hear for it, I can feel the power pulses and also I have tachometer, which is a good assistant, too. I can drive without a tachometer, anyway. :)
 
Me driving a stick shift? NOOOOOOO!!!! :nono: ...I remember driving backwards :ugh: cause I couldn't firgure out how to get that darn stick shift to work so I guess you could say I can't drive a car with a stick shift in it...Urrggg

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sequoias said:
I have no problem driving a stick shift, and I have one. I don't really have to hear for it, I can feel the power pulses and also I have tachometer, which is a good assistant, too. I can drive without a tachometer, anyway. :)
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I didnt really think it would be a problem, since you can feel your car being held back when you are going 30 in 1st for example... :lol: not like I have done it or anything :D

Just want to hear everyone elses opinions, but I guess some people cant drive a stick to begin with... :cool:

Teg
 
tegumi said:
I didnt really think it would be a problem, since you can feel your car being held back when you are going 30 in 1st for example... :lol: not like I have done it or anything :D

Just want to hear everyone elses opinions, but I guess some people cant drive a stick to begin with... :cool:

Teg
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Oh yeah, I have redlined every shift. I redlined 1, 2, 3, and 4 but never did at 5th since it's the last gear. It's nice to hear the engine scream when it nears the redline, yes I can hear with hearing aids. :) I remember going 80 mph in 3rd gear which is the redline before hitting 4th. Of course, I don't redline my car all the time, rarely I do. I mostly shift at 3,000 rpms or so. :)
 
Im dead deaf, and I love stick! It is NOT necessarily to hear the engine. You can practically feel it. Deafies tend to be more sensitive with feeling than hearing people. You won't be able to find regular motorcycle with automatics. They all comes out manuals. I have no problem with them. My gf is deaf too, she prefers sticks than automatics. Right now both of our vehicles is automatics, because we wanted remote starter. That way, we can start the engine from nice toasty warm inside instead of going out brrrrrrr cold weather to start the engine. Remote starter is better than going in and start the engine because leaving keys in there gives thieves opportunity! It is a NO NO!
 
<--Die hard stick shift driver!

I've done stick shifts no matter what kind of engines is in the car I've driven. I've done V8 (Mustang GT), V6 (Jeep Commando) , no-turbo 4 cyls (Ranger, Daytona, my 2 Escorts), turbo 4 cyl (my roomie's Subaru WRX) and 5 cyl (my 84 Audi Coupe GT)

It takes a lot of experience to know what time to shift to next gear and do it right. I usually shift my cars to next gear at 4,000 rpm but when it comes to downshifting from 5th to 1st gear I use below 2,000 rpm as benchmark and guide to downshifting without stalling the car.

and oh tegumi btw my 2001 ZX2 Escort with a 5 speed stickshift is at 124K miles on her ORIGINAL clutch since I bought her new!

Now stick shifts are getting so damn hard to find! AUGH!
 
There is good reason for that! Todays automatics are as good as manual, even the fuel efficency as well. If your planning to buy stick to save gas, your wasting your time. Now that the fact is that automatics now lasts as long as 200k miles. While stick, the clutch usually last til 100k, unless doing it right and on highway could well lasts beyond that.

I love stick, but when it comes to convience, I go for automatics. Cant have remote starters on manual, otherwise it will run and ram into something if installed and that stick is in first gear or reverse.

sablescort said:
<--Die hard stick shift driver!

Now stick shifts are getting so damn hard to find! AUGH!
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In very simple response to the question:
It shouldn't be any more difficult for the Deaf to learn than for the average hearing person to learn..... why should it make any difference? For many years my totally Deaf ex-husband drove a pickup with a stick shift....
 
Yup, but the problem I often see when hearing people are SOOOOO dependent on sound for everything. They forgot all about the importance of seeing, and feeling. When they met deaf, they freak out and trying to figure out how this person could just live by without sound??? Im sorry but I must say, those people are just plain ignorant idiots! I even hope someday they become deaf and they can freak out as much as they want to! My problem? No, because they refused to learn and be opened minded about disability, so its their turn to suffer. I suffer enough from their stupid BS.
 
sablescort said:
Now stick shifts are getting so damn hard to find! AUGH!
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I know!! It sucks!! I just got my truck 2 days ago (2002 Ranger) and I knew I wanted a used Ranger that was a stick, and the dealership had 5 used Rangers, and only 1 was a stick, so I got the one!!


sablescort said:
and oh tegumi btw my 2001 ZX2 Escort with a 5 speed stickshift is at 124K miles on her ORIGINAL clutch since I bought her new!
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You would have to be a pretty bad driver to still not have an original clutch in a 2001!! :lol:
 
diehardbiker65 said:
Yup, but the problem I often see when hearing people are SOOOOO dependent on sound for everything. They forgot all about the importance of seeing, and feeling. When they met deaf, they freak out and trying to figure out how this person could just live by without sound??? Im sorry but I must say, those people are just plain ignorant idiots! I even hope someday they become deaf and they can freak out as much as they want to! My problem? No, because they refused to learn and be opened minded about disability, so its their turn to suffer. I suffer enough from their stupid BS.
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Yep and some hearing people were surprise to hear that deaf people can drive too, it made me wonder why they were soo surprise or shocked, I didn't know we had to hear in order to drive a car :ugh: ....

I don't think most hearing people know that deaf people can do almost anything and they don't have to be able to hear to do it!
 
Also, stick shift on a mini-van is rare as heck, especially large pick up trucks, too. The old Toyota van, 1984 to 1989-very few had 5 speed manual, most had 4 speed automatic with overdrive. The 1991 to 1997 Toyota Previa, and it's even MORE rarer, I never seen any Previa with a manual transmission, but I heard they do.

I guess soccer moms don't know how to drive a manual or they want something easier to drive cuz of lot of kids to handle.
 
sequoias said:
I guess soccer moms don't know how to drive a manual or they want something easier to drive cuz of lot of kids to handle.
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Ah, getting a bit sexist now, are we? :lol:
 
LM60CT said:
Ah, getting a bit sexist now, are we? :lol:
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:lol: I do know that lot of women can drive a stick shift, that was a joke, anyhow. :P
 
I use auto gear not shiftstick gear. I don't know how to use shiftstick gear and its working so much.
 
diehardbiker65 said:
Im dead deaf, and I love stick! It is NOT necessarily to hear the engine. You can practically feel it. Deafies tend to be more sensitive with feeling than hearing people.
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Yes, thats right.

Stick (I call it manual gear in my country) is ALOT cheaper to buy than automatic cars. Also save petrol (gas) too. money-wise!
 
i have drove once with a stick on car... but however i'm not skilled driver with a stick.. only drove once for 10 min to see how it feels :-x

however other vechicles.. like my ATV.. its not a stick.. but a clutch.. and yeah i need to change gears ever time i feel when its time..

there's no RPM odometer or anything to let me know its time to change gears on my ATV.. soo.. how i know?

I feel its engine's reving.. (since i don't wear CI while riding it) when i feel its over RPM i changed the gears.. but normally i change gears before its overreving.. however if its underreving.. the engine dies. kinda sucks but thats a clutch system for ATV.. and i think its same with cars too..
 
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